Casting Repair Welder

Harrison Steel's Casting Repair Welders eliminate any defects and shape our steel castings using powerful equipment that will end up on huge equipment used to shape the world. This critical position allows us to meet our company's driving principle of Satisfying Our Customer.

Casting Repair Welders:

• Excavates out inclusions using a carbon arc
• Welds using flux core wire to blend weld metal into the cast steel
• Shapes critical casting features using a carbon arc and hand grinder

Ideal Casting Repair Welders have:

• Experience with welding and carbon arc equipment
• Experience in a manufacturing environment
• Strong attention to detail and process

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Marks casting with welder symbol for traceability.
• Repairs fully all defects marked by the Line Inspector using gouging, welding, burning, and carbon arc washing.
• Removes excess material on the steel castings through precision burning and carbon arc washing.

Work Environment:

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly exposed to fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals and vibration. The employee is frequently exposed to work near moving mechanical parts; extreme cold and extreme heat The employee is occasionally exposed to work in high, precarious places; outdoor weather conditions. The employee may be exposed to risk of electrical shock and risk of radiation. The noise level in the work environment is usually very loud.

About Harrison Steel:

• Harrison Steel is a family owned company that engineers and manufactures castings of 350 to 12,500 pounds, net casting weight, for businesses in industries such as agriculture, mining, and oil and gas. The benefits of working at Harrison Steel include 401k and profit sharing, full health, vision and dental plans available, vacation, career opportunities to move into other departments and supervisory roles, and the WeCare Clinic, available to employees and family members for a variety of medical visits with no out-of-pocket costs. HS is located in Attica, Indiana, where it was founded in 1906 by J.W. Harrison, as the National Car Coupler Company. Attica is a rural city surrounded by traditional Midwest farmland that about 3,200 residents call home. The foundry is a 40-minute drive from Lafayette, Indiana or Danville, Illinois, and 1.5 hours from Indianapolis.